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flown in the face of

flown in the face of is the past participle of fly in the face of.

Meaning of fly in the face of

Verb

fly in the face of (third-person singular simple present flies in the face of, present participle flying in the face of, simple past flew in the face of, past participle flown in the face of)

  1. (idiomatic) To act in a manner highly contrary to; to counteract or contradict.
    • The new design is very edgy and certainly flies in the face of tradition.

Questions about flown in the face of

What is flown in the face of the past participle of?
Flown in the face of is the past participle of fly in the face of.

Words near flown in the face of in the dictionary

  1. flown blind
  2. flown by
  3. flown by the seat of one's pants
  4. flown high
  5. flown in
  6. flown in the face of
  7. flown into
  8. flown like a bird
  9. flown low
  10. flown off
  11. flown off at a tangent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flown in the face of (page history and authors); fly in the face of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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